DA LOLZ - True Story

[1smut_princess]

Reason #459002 why PoT is great.
So my husband is in the military, and called me today when he was on break. The followin' conversation went like this:

Hub: "So whatcha doin' honey?"
Me: "Just some PoT."
Hub: "....."
Hub: "....Baby... this is a work phone. Try and like.. not say things like that... for my sanity's sake. I mean, I'm okay with it if that's what you're doing, just... don't drive anywhere! And please tell me you're at a friends house or somethin'?"
Me: "Huh?"
Hub: "Oh man, how much did you do?"
Me: "Um... I think we... may not be on the same page honey."
Hub: "What?"
Me: "I'm on People of Thedas.. you know. That place. PoT."
Hub: "Oh dear god don't scare the piss outta me like that!"

Comments

[twist_shimmy]

Right now I'm working on Faolan's oneshots, Tesni's series (with Lenna and Caerwyn), editing for Lenna and Estara, and now a Sekrit New Aeducan fic. Chances of any of these being done by the time DA2 arrives?

Zero.

@_@

[1smut_princess]

Yes, and with your Luke Skywalker hand out of comish, it will take awhile no doubt. BTW how is your mitten?

[twist_shimmy]

I managed to keep it from blistering too badly, so now that the burns aren't developing anymore I can just cover it with gauze and use it almost normally. As long as nothing touches it, it doesn't hurt. And I get to look like a mummy!

Doing dishes and showering has been sodding interesting, though.

(Also, I have a word dictation program, so now that I reinstalled it, writing is still gtg.)

[1smut_princess]

Yaay. Also, have you tried swipin' honey on it? When I was a chef that's what we did, insteada usin' unguents and salvs etc. Petrolium based products make it hard for the burns to breathe, and if you got access to some raw honey (nonpasturized basically, but 'normal' honey works too, just not as well) it's a pretty strong antibacterial and I tell ya what - if I hadn't been usin' that I'd still have the scars all over my arms. Now y'can't tell anymore that I used to have a set of tiger stripes that went up to my shoulders, or that I had burns on my neck and stomach. Let's not even mention that time my hand got into the fryer...

[twist_shimmy]

I've been sticking to aloe since it lets the wound breathe but keeps it from peeling. If it looks like it's gonna get infected like the last burn did I'll break out the honey. Thanks for the advice!

(Basically my hands don't feel heat, and sometimes I forget basic life lessons like "DON'T TAKE THE PAN OUT OF THE OVEN WITH YOUR BARE HANDS, DUMBASS. Gotta love nerve damage.)

[1smut_princess]

Ooohhhh ouch. I feel ya there. I used to be left handed... and I used to play multiple instruments. Nerve damage ftl.

[twist_shimmy]

I used to be right-handed. Now I'm ambidextrous in the sense that I can use both of them poorly. :D Thank the Creators for keyboards.

[sleepyowlet]

Tea-Tree oil. Hurts like the dickens when you put it on first, but burns heal in three days tops without scarring. Great stuff. I use that always - and I used to work in a restaurant kitchen that featured a deep-fryer with hicups. Nuff said.

[twist_shimmy]

Tea tree oil is amazing. I use it diluted for outer ear infections and cat scratches.

Never thought to put it on burns, though. Thanks! <3

[1smut_princess]

I used to work in a kitchen with all men and they were all of the mind that a woman should only be in a kitchen at home, and didn't belong in a "real" restaurant. Hence the whole gettin' pushed whilst fiddlin' with the fryer. Hadta learn to act like my balls were bigger than theirs.... which resulted in me learnin' how to throw a chef's knife and have it land usually within two inches of their hand. :was scary dragon lady in the kitchen after the fryer incident:
Ugh I schnortle every time I hear some girl go "OH but they made me work four twelve hour shifts and I get paid three dollars less than the other guys per hour! :whine:"
S'like "Bitchez, please. I didn't get paid for more than 30-41 of the 80-100 hours I generally worked, and I got paid less than half than most of the dudes. Pft." (and yeah, I know that isn't legal, but that's how it was 10yrs ago when I got in. Y'want a job in the kitchen and y'got tits? Oh you get pennies and you work like a slave. Who cares if y'have a life?)
The tea-tree oil trick always made me too miserable to work through the burns, so I always stick to honey...

[sleepyowlet]

Well, it was my mother's restaurant and it was only her and me cooking. Mediterranian stuff. But we didn't offer much Italian food, because everybody did that.
Well, I rather spent half a minute yodeling my lungs out, because it meant no pain afterwards and no scars. I'm quite attached to my face, and I don't want to think about what it would look like without tea tree oil.
As for the attitude of male cooks; too true. And utter B.S. Many women work just as hard as any man and whine less (just watch men when they're sick. Most of them are such babies). But that's the same in any male-dominated field.

[1smut_princess]

My hand was so bad they hadta skin graft me, but the raw honey did the same. Then again I naturally have skin that heals well in the first off. I should be covered in scars head to toe, but for few I have are less than three years old. Mainly a couple tiny cat scratches...
I did Italian, French (and if I smell bouillabaisse or pasta with too much olive oil, I get sick to my stomach to this day), "American", pan-Asian and such... I wish I'd worked in a family kitchen, so I wouldn'ta hadta deal with such douchewaffles. But I did wind up puttin' the fear of god in alla them eventually. In-A-Hurry-Rhion-With-Boiling-Pots or Sharp Knives = Get the fuck outta her way or she will stab/pour on you.
...Interestingly I was never fired. I quit.

[sleepyowlet]

Teheh, the worst that happened to me in the kitchen was that my favourite knife decided to ... bite me. It just fell on my right hand (I missed the magnet) and ... well, the people I encountered on my way to the doctor got very pale. Now I have a pretty ugly scar on the back of my hand - I guess hand-modelling is no longer a career option for me :D
Ah yes, olive oil. I still have a can of the good stuff (organic, from Crete)... but the best was from Syria, made from olives that grew on trees at least a thousand years old. Flavourful, nutty and not the least bit bitter. I loved it. Some lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes and sweet pepper, add some Greek or Bulgarian sheep-cheese and that oil - and you're in heaven. I swear.
Oh fig. Now I have a craving.

[1smut_princess]

Ummmnomnomnom. Figs, fresh, sliced into quarters, drizzled with a little honey, and a few crushed pistachios. I'm a big fan of Spanish olive oil. Too bad they don't export it more heavily. I currently have a nice little drum that's oh... a third full. It should last until I move to Germany, and shippin' from Spain then will be cheaper...:sighs happily: Though you gotta tell me where you get this Syrian olive oil. I gots to tap that little bottle like stat. Nothin' better than some manchigo or asiago with a drizzle of olive oil, a plate with some melon and serrano/iberico jamon and UMF. Happy place for Rhion.
Interestin'ly though I never did cut myself in the kitchen. Except one time when I was doin' dishes cuz our usual washer was out sick, a waiter quit and threw all her plates into the sink of soapy water, and whups - nice slice right from the tip of my ring finger to the base knuckle. Bled like an unholy terror. And I still had to do the dishes. No scar though!
The only other time I cut myself in a semi-cooking scenario was when I was filleting a fish I had just caught on the boat, and got that knife waaay up into my hand. Hello nerve damage!
Now I feel the need to go back to the market, buy some fresh figs to go with my little sweet oranges, drizzle some honey and cardamom on them and put'em in the fridge. Already got the cheese sliced up... nomnomnom.

[sleepyowlet]

You plan on moving to Germany? What the hell for???
If you don't mind me asking :)

[1smut_princess]

Hubby is in military, and it was Germany, Italy or Belgium. Rota Spain (which would have made me into a happy kerplewy of happy gooeyness) is primarily a Navy thing, and only has a few Army positions. And trust me, I'd rather Germany over any outpost here in the States. Besides, Germany is like cybergoth mecca. And that pickie of me I use in my icon is two years old, and I have 18 piercings* now rather than the two shown, plus 6hrs worth of tattoos done, but the hair is the same. I would love to go to a country where the highest concentration of clubs and music that actually cater to my subcultural set in the world resides.

*in the picki I only had my eyebrow and a single monroe, now I have both monroe lip piercings, a medusa (center of upper lip), two sets of spider bites (lip piercing on the bottom lip, two on each side), two in my right cheekbone, two in my left nostril, two in left eyebrow, one in right eyebrow, two in each ear. Left side of my neck and the back of my neck, and my right arm from top of my hand to just over my elbow. Going in to see my piercer and tattoo artists before I go to Germany to finnish off the piercings, and maybe do my left arm-glove.

[sleepyowlet]

Cybergoth, huh? Then you should have heard of a lovely city in Germany called Leipzig. Every year they celebrate the biggest goth-festival in the world there, the Wave-Gotik-Treffen.
And guess what? That's where I live XD
Yeah, Germany is pretty Goth-friendly (except parts of the south).

[1smut_princess]

I'm goin' to Groffenfurg (not sure that's how it is spelled, haven't had the chance to look at Phill's orders yet), but it's near Nuremberg.
And yes, yes I know of Leipzig, I have wanted to go for years. Since we are shipping our soon to be purchased Saab over there, I will have free reign to drive around and get lost and drive around some more and be damn happy about it. Though if we were actually in Nuremberg we wouldn't ship the car as I know how good public transport is over there. And I'll bug everyone with pointed fingers at items going "Was ist das?" so I can relearn the language.

[sleepyowlet]

Oh, that far south. Be ready to have strange encounters of the ultra catholic kind.
So you speak some German? That's nice, not many do. I think it's a long-winded and precise, yet whimsical language. But I'm biased :D
And you simply *have* to see Leipzig. Especially during the WGT. The whole city suddenly goes black, even the posh boutiques in the city-centre redecorate during the festival. And then the guests, more than 20000 goths from all over the world...

[1smut_princess]

:big happy eyes: I am so gonna go drive to Leipzig, probably a few days after I get back from Spain. Just to meander. As for dealin' with weird looks, I'm used to them. Often I find that many ppl find me more approachable than many of the body mod community. I get little old grannies come up to me to tell me my hair is beautiful, or to ask about my piercings. In Spain I saw piercings and tattoos, just not as many as I have and not coupled with the attire I wear. The strange thing was that the Spaniards were cool with it - it was the expaits from the UK who were the ones weirded out. Which is flippin' weird! I mean, like after Germany, that's like... the other big goth place!
I took four years of German, but the reason it didn't stick with me is that I didn't learn it the 'natural' way. For instance, I went to Spain with like "Que estas?" and "Donde esta caille Andulcia?" and little things like that. But I would ask people "Que estas?" for everything, and now still remember 3/4's of what I learned. My usage isn't great grammatically, but I get by.
I figure with the foundation of understanding I had from school, plus my natural curiosity and outgoingness, I should be able to actually learn German for real this time, and not that by rote crap they do in classes. I'm super excited. Plus I've always found German to be a soothing language. My friends all say I'm crazy for that, but meh, whatever. My maiden name was Strausser, and my family was originally from Hamburg some generations back. Goin' back to my roots and all that....

[1smut_princess]

http://1smut-princess.dreamwidth.org/3780.html?#cutid1
That's what I look like now. Mods n'all. I'd like to go to a place where people don't freak out when they see me. Most of the States is like that. I mean I'm comfortable with how I look, and like it. But it still makes some people uncomfortable. Plus I'd like to be around more people like me - in person, not just online.

[andorin]

Oh god, yer talkin' food. Cheese and olive oil and figs and... Yum.

[1smut_princess]

Yes, yes I is food princess of fluffy colorful swearing like sailor cuteness. Feel my rawr.